From the Press Release: “The X PRIZE Foundation and the Spaceward Foundation have signed an agreement that will bring the Space Elevator Games, a NASA Centennial Challenge, to the X PRIZE Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico…”
This is double-plus good. The crowds should be much larger than for the Space Elevator games alone and the extra publicity will be quite beneficial – the more people that learn about this concept, the better. Of course this also raises the bar. Teams that succeed (and fail) will do so in front of a much larger audience.
Note that the dates have been officially set as October 20th and 21st. I had earlier reported that there would be competition on the 19th and the 22nd as well, but this no longer seems to be the case.
At the X Prize Cup web site, they publish a list of events (including the Space Elevator games) as well as hotel and travel information. There is also a promise to broadcast the events, live, via the web. So, if you can’t make it, you can still watch it.
The Press Release is in .pdf format.